Dev Requests Housing Timers

[Vahlnir]

I get why they added the random timers but I do think it's a little excessive. The actual wait time definitely needs to be reduced. The ideal solution would be creating enough housing for everyone but that's not realistic atm.

[LalaRu]

Lower timers will advantage more the spawn-camping people than everyone else, maybe even worsen the situation, with hordes waiting at the plate because timer is expiring "soon".

It is best to keep timers as they are now, and good luck.

[BillyKaplan]

The ideal solution would be creating enough housing for everyone but that's not realistic atm.

Not if you want to have a neighborhood attached, no. But Apartments already give us the system needed, what they need to do is create bubbles your private, instanced house will exist in that you'll teleport to. Heck, make a way for people to cross-garden in-doors and you lose a lot of the functional need for a yard, too, so you can simply teleport people inside the house itself rather than to the main gate.

And you'd be surprised how many people will stop at a medium if not outright a small, since not everyone actually wants a large.

Thing is, if no other reason, they won't do that because you can store more items in even a small house (I think at least) than you can in an apartment, so that's one motivation why they won't go there.

[Crushnight]

Lower timers will advantage more the spawn-camping people than everyone else, maybe even worsen the situation, with hordes waiting at the plate because timer is expiring "soon".

It is best to keep timers as they are now, and good luck.

i do not think so current timers can punish you with having no access due to basic stuff like sleep, a maximum of 8 hr timer (but can be random before that time) would be far less punishing. Do bare in mind current timers can run up to 24hrs+, people can be stupid and decide to stay at the placard spamming until the plot has sold, that kind of thing is incredibly unhealthy but the current system can make players feel forced to do that just for a chance at a house and this was something FF11 had bad news articles about when people tried to kill Pandemonium Warden. The big difference between the two is PW was forced to be that length while the Housing isn't, but People do not have a choice in the Plot buying timers and no knowledge when it is up so they can feel forced to stay there for the entire day(I do mean a literal 24hrs) if they are stupid/desperate enough and i think SE should try to mitigate that level of desperation/stupidity

[Flu]

I made a recent post suggesting a fix for this timer. It involves replacing it with a lottery system. If you all would like to give it a read and offer suggestions that would be awesome

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...on-For-housing

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Honestly if they want to keep it a random system, at least make this a lottery. We all pay the plot price up front, get thrown into a pile, and can get on with our lives while praying RNGesus favors us. If it does, hurray - we got a house without wasting our lives and playtime clicking a placard like mindless drones! If it doesn't, we get our money refunded and just try again at the next one.

I hate the randomness of this, but at least make it so we aren't wasting actual playtime trying for a chance at a house because SE refuses to make a better system. I'd be a lot happier with a lotto than this hidden timer BS.

[Vahlnir]

Honestly if they want to keep it a random system, at least make this a lottery. We all pay the plot price up front, get thrown into a pile, and can get on with our lives while praying RNGesus favors us. If it does, hurray - we got a house without wasting our lives and playtime clicking a placard like mindless drones! If it doesn't, we get our money refunded and just try again at the next one.

I hate the randomness of this, but at least make it so we aren't wasting actual playtime trying for a chance at a house because SE refuses to make a better system. I'd be a lot happier with a lotto than this hidden timer BS.

So basically you want to throw one random based system out for another random based system? How about no. What we have now isn't ideal but a lottery system would be worse.

[Flu]

So basically you want to throw one random based system out for another random based system? How about no. What we have now isn't ideal but a lottery system would be worse.

I personally feel it would be better than what we have now because it wouldnt ivolve us camping a plot all day. you place your name in and go actually play the game.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

So basically you want to throw one random based system out for another random based system? How about no. What we have now isn't ideal but a lottery system would be worse.

How would it be worse? We at least would have time to eat, sleep, play the actual game, go to work - without worrying we'll miss out on a plot. Randomness sucks, but if they're fully intent on keeping it random for the sake of avoiding house flippers - at least make a random system that doesn't require people to possibly choose between their health and lives for the sake of a house.

Ideally I'd like them to create a better solution than this, don't get me wrong. Ideally, I'd like instanced housing - neighborhoods are not all that great and you barely see people around to begin with, we're all inside our houses. Ideally, I'd also like those apartment upgrades they threw around one time as thinking about. I'd prefer to have anything besides this mess we're in right now.

But the likelihood of that vs. them keeping it a random chance is low. So at least make the random chance less harmful to people's health.

[Yllania]

So basically you want to throw one random based system out for another random based system? How about no. What we have now isn't ideal but a lottery system would be worse.

How is a lottery worse than not being able to play a game because if you want a house you better be clicking the sign to buy it for 11 hours